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‘From there things snowballed until a violent civil war burst into the colonies.’

‘The ambitious vision then was that this coalition would snowball into one single consolidated unit which would grow into greater strength.’

‘As soon as you appear on a few spam lists, it just snowballs.’

‘One thing is for certain, however, the lively debate surrounding the film - be it political or environmental - should serve to guarantee that profits snowball at the box office.’

‘The problem is quickly snowballing out of control.’

‘Bad luck - the change of just a few atoms - snowballs into metabolic disaster.’

‘This creates more free electrons and the process snowballs.’

‘When we started to promote the course, recruitment snowballed by word of mouth.’

Phrases

a snowball's chance (in hell)

informal No chance at all.

‘the scheme has a snowball's chance in hell of being accepted’

‘I might have a snowball's chance in hell of winning.’

‘There's a snowball's chance in hell that I could find a dirt-cheap flight on Sunday and actually attend the thing.’

‘But the truth is he hasn't a snowball's chance in hell of being elected.’

‘And the chances of the budget being balanced is a snowball's chance in Hell.’

‘But then, it does fit the general picture which is that of a side who ignore convention, defy logic and who, even though nobody thinks they have a snowball's chance in hell, could well win the Champions League.’

‘Watching them in their first round provincial game with St Gaul's nobody would have given them a snowball's chance in hell of reaching the All-Ireland final.’

‘However, since the thing has not a snowball's chance in hell of passing the state legislatures, I can't say this swings my vote much one way or the other.’

‘There's not a snowball's chance in hell that everything will be ready for 2007.’

‘But they have a snowball's chance in hell of being enacted.’

‘I can't remember another archaeological survey where the competition has been so fierce, and if I thought that they had a snowball's chance in hell of finding anything out there, I'd be worried.’